Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

You can learn yoga, Pilates and meditation , and after having meditated for nearly two decades I can say that, for instance, the " Meditation on Emotions " is a perfect introduction to meditation and is actually very much like what I do at least a couple of times a week. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics.

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Emotional Vegan Ethics Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Some people love books like that. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

Piety is the remedy for religious guilt, and to this emotion we are all witting or unwitting heirs. Bit by bit the news would get around, that there is a right and a wrong way to eat; and—failing some coup d’état by censorious vegetarians—the process would be set in motion, that would bring battery farming to an end.

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Meat Vegetarian Battery Fast Food 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

The result is a really good read, a suspenseful true-crime narrative that reads like a novel yet also probes real-life questions focused on the purpose of natural history museum collections and the ethics of closely gated “hobbyist” communities. If you thought birders could be weird, wait till you meet the fly tiers.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 107

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

This image (by Marius Coetzee) shows Adam Riley & David Hoddinott with a group in Nsuta Forest, a forest reserve that is in the process of being clear-felled and settled by subsistence farmers. The rare Rufous Fishing Owl was one of the many species seen by the group here. What are the chances of survival for these shy forest denizens?

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 211